Overview of Fluence-to-Effective Dose and Fluence-to-Ambient Dose Equivalent Conversion Coefficients for High Energy Radiation Calculated Using the FLUKA Code
ICRP 74 and ICRU 57 recommended conversion coefficients for use in radiological protection for electrons and photons of energies up to 10 MeV and for neutrons up to 180 MeV. For various purposes (radiation protection around high energy accelerators, shielding calculations, air crew dose assessment, space activity) conversion coefficients for higher energies and other kinds of radiation are needed. Sets of fluence-to-effective dose and fluence-to-ambient dose equivalent conversion coefficients for all kinds of radiation (photons, electrons, positrons, protons, neutrons, muons, charged pions, kaons) and incident energies (up to 10 TeV) of practical interest have been calculated in recent years by the Monte Carlo transport code FLUKA. Since the calculated results are scattered through several papers (journals and proceedings of conferences), it has been considered useful to summarise them in the present paper.